About Me
Hi, I’m Franziska.
Long before dog training became my profession, I was often the person among friends and acquaintances that dogs ended up with.
Whenever someone needed support, I would take their dog for a walk, build up exercises or work on things that weren’t going quite so well in everyday life. Dogs came to stay with me, stayed overnight and later sometimes for several days or even weeks. This meant I regularly had very different dogs in front of me – with different personalities, experiences and challenges.
Animals have been part of my life for as long as I can remember, and the way they communicate has always fascinated me.
With dogs, I began to deepen that understanding more and more and to focus specifically on dog training, learning behaviour, body language and the psychology behind behaviour.
What started as simply helping out gradually became more structured and purposeful training. And the more I understood the dog’s side of things, the more important the other half of the communication became to me: How does a person need to act and communicate so that their dog can understand them too?
Rudi & My Journey into Dog Training
A major turning point for me came with my own dog, Rudi.
With him, I experienced on a completely different level what can become possible through consistent, well-structured training and increasingly subtle communication between dog and human.
For me, it isn’t about simply working through a list of exercises. My goal is for human and dog to truly become a team: for both to learn how to read each other, communicate with one another and understand each other better and better.
The stronger that connection becomes, the more subtle communication can eventually be. Not everything needs a big command or five repetitions. Sometimes a look is enough, a small movement or a snap of the fingers – and sometimes it genuinely feels as though the other one has already understood the thought.
At the same time, a good team doesn’t work for me without guidance, clear rules and reliability. Trust and understanding form the foundation – consistency, repetition and well-structured training help turn that foundation into behaviour you can rely on in everyday life.
Rudi has had a huge influence on my own path in dog training and later also helped inspire my Training Library.
Translating Between Human and Dog
A second strength helps me just as much in dog training: I have worked with people throughout my entire professional life and still work in personal coaching today.
Dog training is very often about more than teaching a dog something new or changing problematic behaviour. It is just as important that the person understands what is happening, why we choose a particular training approach and how they can then put it into practice themselves.
I particularly enjoy working directly with the dog. At the same time, I’m good at explaining training processes in a way that helps the person understand what to do, why they are doing it and what their dog is actually receiving from that communication.
Because in the end, it doesn’t help you much if your dog performs an exercise perfectly only when working with me. My goal is for you to understand how to communicate with your dog, how to build up training steps and how to keep moving forward even when I’m not standing beside you.
With Heart, Mind & Consistency
I like training with heart, humour and genuine enjoyment of working together. I set up both human and dog in a way that makes success possible and helps both sides understand what is expected of them.
At the same time, treating a dog with love and fairness doesn’t mean glossing over difficulties or avoiding clear boundaries. If something isn’t working or a behaviour becomes problematic, I look closely at what is happening. Then it’s about understanding the cause, building an appropriate training approach and following through with it consistently.
For me, praise and rewards belong in training just as much as correction, clear boundaries, repetition and reliability.
My goal isn’t for your dog to simply “function”. I want you to understand your dog and your dog to understand you. On that foundation, you can become a team that trusts and understands each other and grows together.
Today
In private 1:1 training, I support you with your individual training goals – either working together with you and your dog as a team or, where it makes sense, working directly with your dog in individual sessions and building up training steps for you.
I also offer group sessions where training together, practical everyday exercises, social contact and simply having fun with your dog all have their place.
It doesn’t matter to me whether you’re just starting out with your first dog, already have plenty of experience or have reached a point where you simply don’t know what to try next.
We look at where you and your dog are now, what is already working and what you would like to change – and continue from there together.